From nobody Sat Jun 26 19:25:14 2021 X-Original-To: x11@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8293F11E4104 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2021 19:25:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg@unrelenting.technology) Received: from out2.migadu.com (out2.migadu.com [IPv6:2001:41d0:2:aacc::]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4GC3jp2ZvDz3Ph4; Sat, 26 Jun 2021 19:25:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg@unrelenting.technology) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 19:25:14 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=unrelenting.technology; s=key1; t=1624735517; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=Ydo+GR2lQ2XRN9HZn2UmsJfvqJ1HgASsGhCi5pZ0yvU=; b=rVU/rtPYpxO/Pc5Jytv0/mSM/I0FxLhRjcfA3JI3EWOKDhhGTEEigIyTcN70xu/QJlPZmM ZMrnzZtqriTVo6e2G0Jwgq9zuEyphnLBmHI3Vv9ps3HVL420i0u96ZHj/ELK+1OwfAT3H/ jV42tRomDzqmKrTM0Qtw7qbaU4X9G3dKS36KoaBLnDygWuwNGIinkuQ6WngV1WZzYN0euL H/CByml/O5EiRF54rQja31mTPhQuNEaeU0jPGgf4Iw5tQDn0xiGof/bqxmphpRSDpJ7TLW 9rWxD1gSunbsMU3nmbCwqfb9OqIsOM4Ue1xW2xWUdI8rs6uBumnzAKtFVu2a4Q== X-Report-Abuse: Please report any abuse attempt to abuse@migadu.com and include these headers. From: Greg V To: x11@freebsd.org, Robert Huff , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old NVIDIA card, new FreeBSD = failure? In-Reply-To: <24790.13300.679983.900189@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <36919.1624649280@segfault.tristatelogic.com> <24790.13300.679983.900189@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Message-ID: <778F35B8-10F3-4D4D-8200-A235FD9A0762@unrelenting.technology> List-Id: X11 List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-x11 List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT X-Migadu-Auth-User: greg@unrelenting.technology X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4GC3jp2ZvDz3Ph4 X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-Spam: Yes X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On June 25, 2021 7:52:20 PM UTC, Robert Huff wrote: > I use AMD, not Nvidia, but I have been looking for over a year >for a low end card actively supported by drm-kmod and/or >drm-current-kmod=2E Figuring out which chipsets they support =2E=2E=2E l= et's >just call it both educational and frustrating=2E > (For anyone in my position: I _think_ the RX 460 and above >support GCN 2=2E1, which is what I _think_ is the bottom-end >specification=2E Cards matching this number seem to start at about >US $50=2E) Hi, GCN is the name of the GPU architecture, not something a GPU "supports"=2E= =2E Polaris generation (RX 460-590) GPUs are GCN 4=2E0=2E Yes, they are a very= good option=2E But you can use older GCN just as well=2E https://www=2Etechpowerup=2Ecom/gpu-specs/ is a good resource for searchin= g through all the models=2E In the "Architecture" selector, you can choose = any GCN, as well as RDNA 1=2E Just not RDNA 2 yet=2E